⁸ ‘Therefore the Lord God says this: “Behold, I am going to ^(A)bring upon you a sword, and I will cut off from you human and animal life.

³ but I have hated Esau, and I have ^(A)made his mountains a desolation and given his inheritance to the jackals of the wilderness.”

⁴ Though Edom says, “We have been ^(A)beaten down, but we will ^[a](B)return and build up the ruins”; this is what the Lord of armies says: “They may ^(C)build, but I will tear down; and people will call them the ^[b]territory of wickedness, and the people ^[c]with whom the Lord is indignant ^(D)forever.”